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  1. Certainly not microscopic on FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've worked rather extensively with a Xerox DocuColor 252 over the last four years. Those yellow dots are anything but microscopic. I could plainly see the dots on most printouts under standard office-style fluorescent lighting. They always bugged the crap out of me.

  2. Re:There's Two Possibilities on Personal Electronics May Indeed Disrupt Avionics · · Score: 1

    Why test EVERY combination of plane and gadget?

    It is impractical for pharmaceutical companies to test compounds on every combination of person and condition. Instead they perform tests on representative samples of people.

  3. Re:What is arbitration? on Supreme Court: AT&T Can Force Arbitration · · Score: 1

    Like a judge elected by citizens?

    Fixed that for you. The whole idea of appointing a judge for life is to help ensure impartiality. They don't have to fear losing their job for making an unpopular decision.

  4. Re:Give the Sauce? on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Retracted. I must learn to read more carefully.

  5. Give the Sauce? on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    TFA doesn't mention a source, and that bothers me. Is this information about Lion derived from the early developer test versions, or has someone at Apple stated that this is the way it is?

  6. Re:Looping sound on Covert Video of Apple IPad 2 Just Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, I was noticing that. Very obviously a loop.

  7. Re:Jeeze. on W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet · · Score: 1

    The reason specs progress slowly is because it takes lots of programmer-hours to implement them correctly. Most of HTML5 is fully specced and just awaiting implementation. Programming is expensive work.

    Why does it have to be implemented before it can become a finalized specification?

  8. Re:The final version is not due for several years on W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid I don't understand what your point is. Do you mean "working out" as in exercising or as in working out the details?

    By what you're saying, I should infer that the writers of the HTML5 recommendation are creating the documentation to fit the existing browser implementations of HTML5? What does time to implement have to do with the writing of the recommendation? W3C writes the recommendation, and browser developers implement the recommendation in their software--that's how it (should) works.

  9. Re:More evidence of the W3C's increasing irrelevan on W3C Says Don't Use HTML5 Yet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What we need is "a day in the life of a W3C draft" article to figure out why these standards and recommendations take so long to mature.

  10. Re:Not as Sharp on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    The "WebP" versions may look murkier because whoever made those images forgot to add a colorspace profile to the PNG images (or, alternatively, remove the colorspace profile from the JPEG images).

  11. Re:Communal Calculators on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    With tools like that, do we really need math classes?

  12. Ineffective on Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Terrorists will simply train themselves to remain calm and lower their heartrate.

  13. Grammar grammer gramma on Over 12,000 black Nintendo DS Lite Systems Stolen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Something is seriously wrong witht that first sentence. Remove the descriptors and it breaks down to this:
    "Nintendo DS Lite systems stolen when their shipment to Europe where the black DS Lites are launching on June 23rd"

    Were they stolen on the ship by pirates? I don't understand.

  14. Re:Not Mozilla software that was hacked on SpreadFirefox Security Breached (again) · · Score: 3, Informative
    It's not about the fact that it was a user community, rather than the actual Mozilla.org site that was compromised.

    Yeah, except that:
    This exploit was limited to SpreadFirefox.com and did not affect mozilla.org web sites or Mozilla software.
  15. Re:Images here on Discussing Logitech's New Gaming Mice · · Score: 1, Informative

    The extra buttons on my MX510 work just fine for whatever I want them to in most native Linux games. There's a guide on Linux-Gamers.net that worked for me.

  16. Re:Images here on Discussing Logitech's New Gaming Mice · · Score: 1

    Ya know, that HUD setup sounds a lot like Red Orchestra for UT2004.

  17. Re:Poster Wrong. on Monad Shell Removed From Vista · · Score: 1

    I think the point that AdroitOneX was trying to make is that Monad can't be removed from Vista (as the /. article's title suggests) since it was never going to be in Vista to begin with.

  18. Re:Coral Cache on AI Researchers Produce New Kind of PC Game · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm rather surprised that they didn't set up a torrent.

  19. Re:Laser Traps on Juggling Molecules with Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dunno. I think they'd get better results if they reversed the polarity on their trap coil couplers.

  20. Re:How about a DMCA opinon, here? on DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon Camera · · Score: 1

    This is all AFAIK:

    The photographer can do whatever the hell he or she wants to with the data, including decrypt it.

    Nikon is not trying direclty to restrict photographers from doing that. They are restricting *indirectly* by preventing third parties from distributing the means to decrypt the raw data.

  21. Think of the money, man! on Soul No Longer Burns on Xbox, GC · · Score: 1

    I never quite understood exclusive deals like this one. If you programmed the game in a platform-independent manner and sold it for more than one console, wouldn't you stand to gain more money than if you had released it only on a single platform?

    I rather enjoy SC2 on my GC, but SC3 is not going to make me go out and buy a PS2.

  22. Re:cracked/ on DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a time when using/linking to/possessing DeCSS made you a felon? Despite that, it seemed popular enough then.

  23. Re:Why these games? on LGP Announces Three New Linux Games · · Score: 1

    And once again, I screw up. Please ignore the parent and I'll stay away from the repy button.

  24. Re:Why these games? on LGP Announces Three New Linux Games · · Score: 1

    The parent is replying to the parent of its parent, not its parent.

  25. Re:Why these games? on LGP Announces Three New Linux Games · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pirating is as strong as ever in the Windows world, and people that use Microsoft products should be very used to shelling out cash for software.

    Your stereotype that followers of the Open Source Initiative pirate software frequently is nothing but speculation.